The Story of the Big Front Door

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Excerpt: ...the boy added: "It is hard to know what day to choose, When there isn't one you care to lose." In great astonishment Father Time exclaimed: "To drop a holiday! Absurd! Impossible! Upon my word! Affairs like this belong to me, As I'll soon let this teacher see." He rapped on the ground with his staff and a small page appeared, wearing a pointed cap and carrying a tin horn. Bowing low before Father Time, he was instructed to call the Holidays 129 together. He withdrew and was heard blowing his horn in the distance ...
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Excerpt: ...the boy added: "It is hard to know what day to choose, When there isn't one you care to lose." In great astonishment Father Time exclaimed: "To drop a holiday! Absurd! Impossible! Upon my word! Affairs like this belong to me, As I'll soon let this teacher see." He rapped on the ground with his staff and a small page appeared, wearing a pointed cap and carrying a tin horn. Bowing low before Father Time, he was instructed to call the Holidays 129 together. He withdrew and was heard blowing his horn in the distance. Presently music sounded, and the eight Holidays came marching in, with banners, singing: "Joyous Holidays, Full of gayety, Bringing happy hours, Merry days are we. "Children love us well, Surely they have reason. Happiness and mirth Bring we every season. "Father Time, we've come, Answering to your call, Glad to do your will Are we one and all." After marching twice around the stage they took their stand in a semicircle before Father Time and the children. Father Time: "These children have come to me in deep distress, because their teacher (a most singular person) says there are too many Holidays, and one of them must be given up. I have sent for you to reassure them; speak for yourselves." The Holidays looked at each other in dismay, and exclaimed: "Holidays are we, And we've come to stay, Caring not a whit What such people say." 130 Boy and girl (clapping their hands): "Oh, dear Holidays, we are so glad! But are you sure she can't send any of you away?" New Year's day now stepped forward. It was Jim Carter, whose suit of cotton batting, decorated with tinsel and cedar, was most becoming. Banner in hand he recited: "First upon the list, I'd be greatly missed. Pages fresh and new, Resolutions true, Wishes for good cheer In the coming year, Where would these all be, Were it not for me?" Both children: "No matter what the teachers say, We can't give up our New Year's Day." Next came Elsie, looking exceedingly like a valentine in her gauzy...
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